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Proposal for Course Change
FAST TRACK
(Select if this will be a fast track item. Refer to UCC or UGC Fast Track Policy for eligibility)
1. Effective BEGINNING of what term and year?:
Spring 2012
See effective dates calendar.
2. College:
CEFNS
4. Current course subject and number:
3. Academic Unit:
GLG 629
5. Current title, description and units. Cut
and paste, in its entirety, from the current online academic catalog*.
(www4.nau.edu/aio/AcademicCatalog/academiccatalogs.htm)
GLG 629 EVOLUTION OF SEDIMENTARY
BASINS (3)
Integrative study of styles, rates, and physical
mechanisms of basin subsidence, emphasizing
quantitative methods applied to understanding
tectonic and structural controls on evolution of
sedimentary basins. Letter grade only.
Prerequisite: GLG 324 and 435.
*if there has been a previously approved UCC/UGC/YCC
change since the last catalog year, please copy the
approved text from the proposal form into this field.
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Geology
Bold the proposed changes in this column to
differentiate from what is not changing, and
Bold with strikethrough what is being
deleted.
GLG 629 EVOLUTION OF SEDIMENTARY
BASINS (3 4)
Integrative study of styles, rates, and physical
mechanisms of basin subsidence, emphasizing
quantitative methods applied to understanding
tectonic and structural controls on evolution of
sedimentary basins. 3 unit lecture, 1 unit
lab. Letter grade only. Prerequisite: GLG 324
and 435 Graduate status in Geology.
6. Is this course in any plan (major, minor or certificate) or sub plan (emphasis or concentration)?
Yes
No
If yes, describe the impact and attach written responses from the affected academic units
prior to college curricular submission.
7. Is there a related plan or sub plan change proposal being submitted?
If no, explain.
Yes
No
8. Does this course include combined lecture and lab components?
Yes
If yes, note the units specific to each component in the course description above.
No
9. Is there a course fee?
No
Yes
10. Justification for course change.
Over the past several years, when the department has taught this course, it was
accompanied by GLG 698 as a 1 unit lab. The department believes it should make this
change permanent by including a 1 unit embedded lab with GLG 629.
IN THE FOLLOWING SECTION, COMPLETE ONLY WHAT IS CHANGING
If the changes included in this proposal are significant, attach copies of original and
proposed syllabi
CURRENT
Current course subject and number
PROPOSED
Proposed course subject and number
Current number of units
3
Current short course title
Proposed number of units
4
Proposed short course title (max 30 characters)
Current long course title
Proposed long course title (max 100 characters)
Current grading option
letter grade
pass/fail
or both
Current repeat for additional units
Proposed grading option
letter grade
pass/fail
or both
Proposed repeat for additional units
Current max number of units
Proposed max number of units
Current prerequisite
GLG 324 and 435
Current co-requisite
Proposed prerequisite
Graduate status in Geology
Proposed co-requisite
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Current co-convene with
Proposed co-convene with
Current cross list with
Proposed cross list with
Answer 11-15 for UCC/YCC only:
11. Is this course an approved Liberal Studies or Diversity course?
If yes, select all that apply. Liberal Studies
Diversity
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
14. Is the course a Common Course as defined by your Articulation Task Force? Yes
No
15. Is this course a Shared Unique Numbering (SUN) course?
No
12. Do you want to remove the Liberal Studies or Diversity designation?
If yes, select all that apply. Liberal Studies
Diversity
13. Is this course listed in the Course Equivalency Guide?
Scott Galland
Reviewed by Curriculum Process Associate
Both
Both
Yes
11/14/2011
Date
Approvals:
Department Chair/ Unit Head (if appropriate)
Date
Chair of college curriculum committee
Date
Dean of college
Date
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Date
Yes
No
Approved as modified: Yes
No
PROPOSED SYLLABUS
College of Engineering, Forestry and Natural Science
School of Earth Science and Environmental Sustainability
Spring 2012
Evolution of Sedimentary Basins - GLG629-1 (XXXX) - 4 credits
Class Time: Tuesday and Thursday, 9:35 – 10:50 am
Class Room: Building 12 (Geology), room 109
Instructor: Dr. Paul Umhoefer
Room - 307 Geology Annex; Phone - 523-6464; paul.umhoefer@nau.edu
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday, 2 – 4 pm
Prerequisite: Graduate Status in Geology
Course Description: Sedimentary basins are the site of many of the most important natural resources
exploited by humans - coal, oil and gas, and water. Tectonic processes mainly form basins. We
will investigate the main types of basins, how sedimentary basins form, how they develop through
time in diverse tectonic settings, and the nature of basin fill. You will learn the skills necessary for
the integrative analysis of basins. In the lab, you will learn some of the hands-on skills and more
technical methods necessary for the integrative analysis of basins.
Student Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:
• Explain the major types of basins and their main features.
• Describe and discuss the mechanisms (major tectonic and geophysical processes) that control the
formation and evolution of basins. Know the methods to quantify some of the critical processes
related to how basins form.
• Describe the features of the internal strata basins that provide information on the first order
explanations for how a basin formed. Define the basic tenets of sequence stratigraphy and know
the methods used to analyze sequences.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the methods and potential problems in interpretations of
paleodispersal systems, sequences & cycles, subsidence and thermal history, and provenance data.
Course Structure/Approach:
Reading: There will be these types of reading for this class.
(1) Chapters from your required textbook, Basin Analysis-v.2, assigned throughout the course.
(2) Two to three overview papers for our field trip; and one paper for a field trip stop at which you will
lead the discussion. These will be determined when the details of the field trip are presented.
(3) A number of papers to complete your team project.
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Textbook:
P.A. Allen & J.R. Allen, 2005, Basin Analysis, 2nd edition, Blackwell Science
Optional book: Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins, 1995, eds. C. J. Busby & R.V. Ingersoll
.Course Outline:
Week
Topics
1
Introduction, Plate Tectonic
Aug 25-27 & basins; geophysics
review; Models
2
Basin types & mechanics:
Sept 1-3 Rift basins & Passive
margins;
3
Extensional model;
Sept 8-10 Refinements of model
4
Foreland basins
Sept 15-17 Loading model
5
Buckling, wedges, models
Sept 22-24 Mantle dynamics
6
Strike-slip & oblique basins;
Sept 29Oct 1
7
Oct 6-8
8
Oct 13-15
9
Oct 20-22
10
Oct 27-29
11
Nov 3-5
12
Nov 10-12
13
Nov 17
14
Nov 24
15
Dec 1-3
Final
Reading
3-60 (1-51)
Other
Trip to Verde Valley:
Friday 8/28 10am – 5pm
63-72 (119-148)
Exercise 1 due Th
73-85; 85-115
Exercise 2 due Th
116-139 (331-362, 393424)
139-166;
167-189
190-218 (425-458)
Exercise 3 due Th
Terranes, successor basins
Arc-related; back arc basins
MID TERM EXAM
Basin Fill: Sediment routing
system; Intro stratigraphy
Cycles in stratigraphy
(221-262; 263-298; 299332)
221-265; 266-275
GSA Annual Meeting
Exercise 4 due Th
275-311
Extra lecture Monday
Team Abstract Due 10/29
Deposition systems
Backstripping
Thermal Maturity
311-348
347-366
366-378; 378-401
Field trip papers
Intro to Field Trip
Provenance
Team Proposal talks
Comprehensive
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misc papers
Exercise 5 due Th
Exercise 6 due Th
Lake Mead
Field Trip – Nov 19 -22
Exercise 7 due Tuesday
Thanksgiving
Team project due
December 5 at 5 pm
Format & time TBD
Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes:
Class presentation/participation: This includes (1) your general class participation, (2) your team
proposal talk, (3) oral summaries of papers in our review of basins in the first half of the course,
and (4) field trip participation.
Exercises: There will be seven Exercises. The exercises will vary from simple analyses that expand
on important topics in the main part of the class, to hands-on investigation using the tools and
methods of basin analysis, to reading and discussion of topics we will not cover in the main class
but are related to it.
Exercise 1: {10 points} Active Basins and GeoMapApp
You will analyze the main traits of one active basin from a list I will provide, or from your own
choice of anywhere in the world. You will you Geomapapp, a world-scale topo/bathymetry tool
from NSF-MARGINS and Lamont Observatory, and a limited set of papers on your basin. These
will allow us to better understand how active basins are expressed in terms of topography, size, and
shape.
Exercise 2: {10 points} Isostacy
This is a simple analysis of how oceanic crust subsides when it cools. The principles are similar to
thermal subsidence in other basins.
Exercise 3: {10 points} Drainages and divides in active orogens
Use Geomapapp to explore drainage patterns in active extensional and contractional orogens.
Exercise 4: {10 points} Stratigraphic Correlation & Facies Analysis
A supplement to our stratigraphic analysis in lecture.
Exercise 5: {10 points} Stratigraphic Cycles
We will explore the topic of stratigraphic cycles in more detail.
Exercise 6: {15 points} Geohistory analysis
This is a hands-on exercise in analyzing the subsidence of basins using the traditional method.
Exercise 7: {15 points} Field Trip
This will be a quantitative modeling of the thermal history of a basin using one of the main
methods.
Mid term exam: This exam will be on the first part of the class on the types of basins and
mechanisms of basin formation. It will be a closed book exam that will be taken in class.
Team project: The goal of this project is to select a basin that has many resources (oil, gas, coal,
water), then determine the state of knowledge of the basin and the resource, and design a research
program to better understand the history of the basin in terms of the how the resource was formed.
Then you will write an USF (Umhoefer Science Foundation) proposal that outlines the importance,
objectives, and work plan for the research program. Format details will be given later. You will
work with another student as a team, a situation that is common in the real world of science. Any
basin is fair game, but I must approve your choice by the end of the 7th week of class.
Final exam: This exam will emphasize the second part of the class on the nature and analysis of basin
fill. The exam will necessarily require you to recall much of the knowledge of the first part of the
class. It will be a closed book exam that can be taken anytime during finals week.
Field trip: Examining basins in the field is an essential part of understanding basin analysis. The first
Friday of the class, we will briefly visit the Verde basin to explore basic aspects of a basin. On our
main field trip, we will examine a series of related small extensional basins (or subbasins of one
larger basin) in the complexly deformed Lake Mead region. Specifically, we will go from east to
west across the northern part of Lake Mead region, where basins are diverse in their facies and
show outstanding examples of syn-faulting deposition. Lake Mead consists of a series of linked
normal and strike-slip faults and related basins that were active in Miocene time. You will be
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given a few papers as an overview of the Lake Mead region. You also will be assigned one paper
for our field trip that will be keyed to one stop. You (and perhaps another student) will be
responsible for summarizing that paper at the stop on the field trip.
Grading: The course grade will be based on the following items further explained below.
Class presentation/participation 10%
Lab exercises
20%
Mid-term exam
20%
Team Proposal
25%
Final exam
25%
Grading Scale:
90-100% = A
80-89% = B
70-79% = C
60-69% = D
< 60% = F
Course Policies: Assignment deadlines - Homework and paper or project deadlines are firm. You
will receive a deduction of 5% off your grade for every day that an assignment is late.
Readings – When I don’t give you all copies of papers, I will provide multiple copies of our
secondary text (Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins) or other readings in the department mailroom.
You may remove the paper-clipped copies of the papers for a short time for copying, or use the
stapled copies during the day or overnight if you take them after 5 pm.
Class Schedule: All reading pages without author is from Allen and Allen textbook
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INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARD Any study involving observation of or interaction with
human subjects that originates at NAU—including a course project, report, or research paper—must be
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reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) for the protection of human subjects
in research and research-related activities.
The IRB meets monthly. Proposals must be submitted for review at least fifteen working days before
the monthly meeting. You should consult with your course instructor early in the course to ascertain if
your project needs to be reviewed by the IRB and/or to secure information or appropriate forms and
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Individual students and faculty members are responsible for identifying instances of academic
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minutes of class time . . . at least 15 contact hours of recitation, lecture, discussion, testing or
evaluation, seminar, or colloquium as well as a minimum of 30 hours of student homework is required
for each unit of credit.”
SENSITIVE COURSE MATERIALS If an instructor believes it is appropriate, the syllabus should
communicate to students that some course content may be considered sensitive by some students.
“University education aims to expand student understanding and awareness. Thus it necessarily
involves engagement with a wide range of information, ideas, and creative representations. In the
course of college studies, students can expect to encounter – and critically appraise – materials that
may differ from and perhaps challenge familiar understandings, ideas, and beliefs. Students are
encouraged to discuss these matters with faculty.”
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EXISTING SYLLABI
Evolution of Sedimentary Basins - GLG629-1 (6753) - Fall 2009 3 credits
To be taken with: Applied Basin Analysis – GLG698-1 (10747) – Fall 2009 1 credit
CoRequisite Lab = GLG698-1 = time TBD
Class Time: Tuesday and Thursday, 9:35 – 10:50 am
Class Room: Building 12 (Geology), room 109
Instructor:
Dr. Paul Umhoefer
Room - 307 Geology Annex; Phone - 523-6464; paul.umhoefer@nau.edu
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday, 2 – 4 pm
Textbook:
P.A. Allen & J.R. Allen, 2005, Basin Analysis, 2nd edition, Blackwell Science
Purpose of Course: Sedimentary basins are the site of many of the most important natural resources
exploited by humans - coal, oil and gas, and water. Tectonic processes mainly form basins. We
will investigate the main types of basins, how sedimentary basins form, how they develop through
time in diverse tectonic settings, and the nature of basin fill. You will learn the skills necessary for
the integrative analysis of basins. Questions we will address in order:
• What are the major types of basins and what are their main features?
• What are the mechanisms (major tectonic and geophysical processes) that control the formation
and evolution of basins?
• What is the nature of the internal strata at the basin scale?
• How do we study the large-scale features of a basin - its paleodispersal system, sequences &
cycles, subsidence and thermal history, and provenance?
Graduate Seminar to Accompany this Course - Applied Basins Analysis: This is a one-credit lab
class that is tied to GLG629 and required for full treatment of Basin Analysis. It will be fully
described in a separate syllabus.
Reading: There will be five types of reading for this class.
(1) Chapters from your required textbook, Basin Analysis-v.2, assigned throughout the course.
(2) Chapters from the secondary book, Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins, assigned in the first half of
the course during our survey of different types of basins. These will be copied and available to
you.
(3) A few classic papers assigned to augment main book. You will be expected to help in our
discussion with information from these papers.
(4) Two to three overview papers for our field trip; and one paper for a field trip stop at which you will
lead the discussion.
(5) A number of papers to complete your team project.
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Grading: The course grade will be based on the following items further explained below.
Class presentation/participation 15%
Mid-term exam
25%
Team Proposal
30%
Final exam
30%
Class presentation/participation: This includes (1) your general class participation, (2) your team
proposal talk, (3) oral summaries of papers in our review of basins in the first half of the course,
and (4) field trip participation.
Mid term exam: This exam will be on the first part of the class on the types of basins and
mechanisms of basin formation. It will be a closed book exam that will be taken in class.
Team project: The goal of this project is to select a basin that has many resources (oil, gas, coal,
water), then determine the state of knowledge of the basin and the resource, and design a research
program to better understand the history of the basin in terms of the how the resource was formed.
Then you will write an USF (Umhoefer Science Foundation) proposal that outlines the importance,
objectives, and work plan for the research program. Format details will be given later. You will
work with another student as a team, a situation that is common in the real world of science. Any
basin is fair game, but I must approve your choice by the end of the 7th week of class.
Final exam: This exam will emphasize the second part of the class on the nature and analysis of basin
fill. The exam will necessarily require you to recall much of the knowledge of the first part of the
class. It will be a closed book exam that can be taken anytime during finals week.
Course Policies: Assignment deadlines - Homework and paper or project deadlines are firm. You
will receive a deduction of 5% off your grade for every day that an assignment is late.
Readings – When I don’t give you all copies of papers, I will provide multiple copies of our
secondary text (Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins) or other readings in the department mailroom.
You may remove the paper-clipped copies of the papers for a short time for copying, or use the
stapled copies during the day or overnight if you take them after 5 pm.
Field trip: Examining basins in the field is an essential part of understanding basin analysis. The first
Friday of the class, we will briefly visit the Verde basin to explore basic aspects of a basin. On our
main field trip, we will examine a series of related small extensional basins (or subbasins of one
larger basin) in the complexly deformed Lake Mead region. Specifically, we will go from east to
west across the northern part of Lake Mead region, where basins are diverse in their facies and
show outstanding examples of syn-faulting deposition. Lake Mead consists of a series of linked
normal and strike-slip faults and related basins that were active in Miocene time. You will be
given a few papers as an overview of the Lake Mead region. You also will be assigned one paper
for our field trip that will be keyed to one stop. You (and perhaps another student) will be
responsible for summarizing that paper at the stop on the field trip.
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Class Schedule:
Optional book: Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins, 1995, eds. C. J. Busby & R.V. Ingersoll
Underlined pages and copy in box in mailroom
Class Time: Tuesday and Thursday, 9:35 – 10:50 am
Week
Topics
Reading
Other
1
Introduction, Plate Tectonic 3-60 (1-51)
Trip to Verde Valley:
Aug 25-27 & basins; geophysics
Woodcock, 2004
Friday 8/28 10am – 5pm
review; Models
Oreskes, 1994
2
Basin types & mechanics: 63-72 (119-148)
Sept 1-3
Rift basins & Passive
margins;
3
Extensional model;
73-85; 85-115
Sept 8-10 Refinements of model
Steckler, 1985 (TU)
4
Foreland basins
116-139 (331-362, 393Sept 15-17 Loading model
424); Jordan, 1981
5
Buckling, wedges, models
139-166;
Sept 22-24 Mantle dynamics
167-189
6
Strike-slip & oblique basins; 190-218 (425-458)
Sept 29Pitman & Andrews 1985
Oct 1
Umhoefer et al 2007
7
Terranes, successor basins
Oct 6-8
8
Oct 13-15
9
Oct 20-22
10
Oct 27-29
Arc-related; back arc basins
MID TERM EXAM
Basin Fill: Sediment routing
system; Intro stratigraphy
Cycles in stratigraphy
(221-262; 263-298; 299332)
221-265; 266-275
GSA Annual Meeting
No Class - Exercise
275-311
Extra lecture Monday
Team Abstract Due 10/29 5
pm
29th DAY OFF-Exercise
11
Nov 3-5
12
Nov 10-12
13
Nov 17
14
Nov 24
15
Dec 1-3
Final
Deposition systems&settings 311-348
Backstripping
347-366
Thermal Maturity
366-378; 378-401
Field trip papers
Intro to Field Trip
Provenance
Team Proposal talks
Comprehensive
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misc papers
Tuesday NO CLASS
Lake Mead
Field Trip – Nov 19 -22
Thanksgiving
Team project due
December 5 at 5 pm
Format & time TBD
Graduate Seminar - Applied Basins Analysis – GLG698-1 – Fall 2009
1 credit
{to be taken with Evolution of Sedimentary Basins - GLG629}
Class Time: TBD
Class Room: TBD
Instructor:
Dr. Paul Umhoefer
Room - 307 Geology Annex; Phone - 523-6464; paul.umhoefer@nau.edu
Textbook:
None
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday, 2 – 4 pm
Purpose of Course: Sedimentary basins are the site of many of the most important natural resources
exploited by humans - coal, oil and gas, and water. Tectonic processes mainly form basins. In this
class, you will learn some of the hands-on skills necessary for the integrative analysis of basins.
These skills will complement and extend what you learn in GLG629.
Exercises: There will be seven Exercises. The exercises will vary from simple analyses that expand
on important topics in GLG629, to hands-on investigation using tools of basin analysis, to reading
and discussion of topics we will not cover in GLG629 but are related to it.
Schedule:
Exercise 1 handed out
Exercise 1 Due
Exercise 2 handed out
Exercise 2 Due
Exercise 3 handed out
Exercise 3 Due
Exercise 4 handed out
Exercise 4 Due
Exercise 5 handed out
Exercise 5 Due
Exercise 6 handed out
Exercise 6 Due
Exercise 7 handed out
Exercise 7 Due
8/27
9/3
9/3
9/10
9/10
9/17
10/15
10/22
10/22
10/30
11/5
11/12
11/12
11/24
Grading: Grading will be based entirely on the exercises – the value of each exercise is listed below.
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Here are short summaries of the exercise – detailed handouts will follow later in the class.
Exercise 1: {15 points} Active Basins and GeoMapApp
You will analyze the main traits of one active basin from a list I will provide, or from your own choice
of anywhere in the world. You will you Geomapapp, a world-scale topo/bathymetry tool from NSFMARGINS and Lamont Observatory, and a limited set of papers on your basin. These will allow us to
better understand how active basins are expressed in terms of topography, size, and shape.
Exercise 2: {15 points} Isostacy
This is a simple analysis of how oceanic crust subsides when it cools. The principles are similar to
thermal subsidence in other basins.
Exercise 3: {10 points} Drainages and divides in active orogens
Use Geomapapp to explore drainage patterns in active extensional and contractional orogens.
Exercise 4: {15 points} Stratigraphic Correlation & Facies Analysis
A supplement to our stratigraphic analysis in lecture.
Exercise 5: {15 points} Stratigraphic Cycles
We will explore the topic of stratigraphic cycles in more detail.
Exercise 6: {15 points} Geohistory analysis
This is a hands-on exercise in analyzing the subsidence of basins using the traditional method.
Exercise 7: {15 points} Field Trip
This will be a quantitative modeling of the thermal history of a basin using one of the main methods.
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